SCROPHULARIACEAE 419 
* Var. LoNGUM Sendt. Sileng-mahahaba (Tag.). 
Similar to the above, but with oblong-lanceolate fruits which are more 
or less narrowed to the acuminate apex, up to 6 cm long and 1.5 cm in 
diameter. 
Cultivated by Chinese gardeners for the Manila market, fl. most of the 
year. A native of tropical America, now cultivated in numerous forms 
in all warm countries. 
8. PHYSALIS Linnaeus 
Erect or spreading branched herbs. Leaves alternate, entire, sinuate, 
or lobed. Pedicels axillary, solitary. Calyx campanulate, cleft half-way to 
the base into 5 teeth, in fruit greatly enlarged, inflated, enclosing but free 
from the fruit. Corolla campanulate, yellow, sometimes purple at the 
base inside. Stamens 5, attached near the base of the corolla. Ovary 
2-celled. Fruit a globose berry. (Greek “bladder” from the inflated 
calyx.) 
Species 45, mostly or all natives of America, 3 or 4 introduced in the 
Philippines. 
Glabrous or nearly so; stems angled................. et cor eines 1. P. angulata 
Pubescent; stems terete or nearly SO..2......2.........-eeececeeeseeneeeesnneee 2. P. minima 
1. P. ANGULATA L. Putocan, Caputi (Tag.). 
An erect, branched, glabrous herb 1 m high or usually less, the stems 
angled. Leaves ovate-oblong, 5 to 9 cm long, acute or acuminate, base 
usually acute, often somewhat inequilateral, entire or somewhat repand- 
toothed. Flowers pale-yellowish, about 6 mm long. Fruit calyx oblong- 
ovoid, 2.5 to 3 cm long, the fruits about 1 cm in diameter. (FI. Filip. 
pl. 50.) 
In waste places, fl. Dec.Apr., and probably in other months; widely 
distributed in the Philippines. A native of tropical America, introduced 
and naturalized here. 
2. P. MINIMA L. Unti-untihan (Tag.). 
An erect, branched, pubescent, annual herb 0.5 iS 0.8 m high, the 
branches terete, often tinged with purple, the ultimate ones slightly angular. 
Leaves ovate, acuminate, base rounded or a little cordate, somewhat ine- 
quilateral, the margins nearly entire or very faintly undulate-lobed, 6 to 12 
em long, 4.5 to 7 cm wide. Flowers solitary, axillary, about 8 mm long, 
the limb 8 mm in diameter, the corolla pale-yellow, with 5 large, purple 
spots at the base inside. Fruit fleshy, globose, edible, about 1 cm in 
diameter, the inflated, accrescent calyx ovoid, acuminate, about 3 cm long, 
2 cm in diameter, green, with 5 prominent, and 5 alternating somewhat 
more slender, purplish ribs. 
In waste places, occasional, fl. July—Oct.; rather widely distributed in 
the Philippines. A native of tropical America, now found in most tropical 
countries, 
124, SCROPHULARIACEAE 
Herbs, rarely shrubs, with simple, opposite, rarely alternate or whorled 
leaves. Flowers irregular, perfect, solitary, or in axillary or terminal 
spikes, racemes, or panicles. Calyx usually persistent, 4- rarely 5-cleft or 
